n. someone affected by aphasia or inability to use or understand language

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Most recent evidence shows that some infants who undego brain surgery do indeed suffer language impairment; and, conversely, that some aphasic adults may relocate part of their language functions in the right hemisphere (p. 98)

From there she found nervy roles and they found her: an explosive pro boxer in "Fighting Words," a stuttering, seizure prone South Londoner in Sarah Kane's "Blasted," and a stammering aphasic in Sam Shepherd's "A Lie of the Mind."

Whenever you so much as mention the idea of an Obama presidency to one of them, they become almost aphasic with inchaoate fear -- it's like they believe that the day he's inaugurated a vast secret army of gigantic black men will be unleashed for a Satanic orgy of rape and pillage and murder directed particularly toward old white women.